About the course

InfoSec can be a pretty daunting industry to try to break into. There seems to be a sea of certifications and wildly contradictory advice on where to start. On top of that, the industry suffers from a catch-22 - it seems you can only get hired if you have experience, but you can’t get experience without being hired!

The PWNY certification is designed to show that you have not just a strong foundation in all key areas of InfoSec, but practical, real-world experience in each of these areas.

This course alone won’t make you an expert. But it will get you hired, it will help you hone in on which area excites you the most, and it will make all those niche, specialist courses much easier to complete quickly and successfully, when you do decide to level up again.

What Makes PWNY Different?

Immersion

Forget finding an hour or two in evenings and weekends. Forget falling asleep in front of online course materials. At PWNY Labs, you’ll be living and breathing InfoSec. By spending 4 weeks away in the paradise island of Bali, out of your comfort zone, your rate of progression will go exponential.

Acceleration

Sure, you can do this all yourself, but the path is opaque, and it can take anything from 1-3 years. At PWNY, you‘ll get a year’s worth of experience in a single month through daily labs, capture the flags, defend the forts and all sorts of wargames and challenges.

Practical Experience

No more struggling through dry books and boring youtube vids. You’ll spend your time in labs, on capture the flags, defend the forts, simulations and real-life scenarios, both alone, in pairs and in teams.

Community

The network you’ll develop, and the connections you make with other students, will give you friendships that will last a lifetime. Once a PWNie, always a PWNie.

Certification

PWNY aims to become the premier certification for elite beginners. Once you graduate, other, more specialist certs will be much easier to complete

Intro’s to Hirers

Companies are crying out for talent. Once you graduate, we’ll introduce you to our network of hiring companies

Is It For You?

This isn’t a course for total beginners. We expect candidates to have some experience in 1 of the fields below, or a technical degree, or some basic experience as a ‘script kiddie’ hacker, or to at least to have graduated from a top-tier bootcamp.

Programming

Networks

SysAdmin

If you have some knowledge of at least one of these, if you’re serious about building a career in InfoSec, and if you’re looking for the most solid foundation you can get, then yes - this course is for you.